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Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped. -- Rose George
Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned. -- Alcee Hastings
Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent. -- Irwin Redlener
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all. -- Gretchen Rubin
Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusual containers, but her arrangements tended to be a little less full. -- Catherine Martin
I've asked to go back into theaters and smaller venues because to me, in smaller venues I can really demonstrate my commitment to quality. Theaters are great containers for music. -- Jason Mraz
Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests. -- Allyson Schwartz
Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential. -- Ban Ki-moon
Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers. -- Claude Nicollier
The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose. -- Anne Campbell
I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can. -- Cherie Lunghi
For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still. -- Ruth Ozeki
For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties. -- Kurt Student
The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from? -- Rachel Nichols
I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread. -- Robert Winston
I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer. -- Taylor Wilson
Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for instance, you can take any of your old makeup containers into its shops, and the sweetest deal is that, once you've racked up six containers, you get a free lipstick or lip gloss. -- Beth Ditto
Words are spiritual containers, -- Kenneth Copeland
Words are containers for power -- Joyce Meyer
Abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.' -- Dawn Johnsen
Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally -- Marshall McLuhan
Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally. -- Marshall McLuhan
Your words are containers for power, and by the words you speak you frame your world! -- Paula White
Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both. -- Barbara Corcoran
Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power. -- Joyce Meyer
Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday-knowledge. Bring your own containers. -- Charles E. McKenzie
Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind. -- Charles Capps
Souls are unique divine signatures of pure love that existed before physical form, and will continue to exist after our physical containers are shed. -- Leta B.
There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it. -- Irena Chalmers
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 -- two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?) -- Ally Carter
We are like clay containers filled with a beautiful treasure. So often it has been the love of Jesus expressed through the life of someone I know that has made a difference in my life. -- Roy Lessin

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